Improvement in belt-fasteners



O. H. JONES. 1 -Belt-Pastener.

Patented .lune 3,1879.

W"z'fzze sse3; Inven im N PETERS. PHOTO-LIIHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON u C UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OWEN H. JONES, OF HARTFORD, GONNEOTIOUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN BELT-FASTENERS.

Specifieadsion forming part of Letters Patent N0. 216,092, dated J une 3, 1879 application filed February 26, 1879.

T0 all whom z't may concern:

Be it known that I, OWEN H. JONES, 0f Hartford, in the county 0f Hartford and State of Connectieut, have invented new a-nd useful Improvements in Belt-Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

'.Ihis invention relates to devices for counecting the ends 0f machine-belting.

'lhe object 0f 1ny invention is t0 make a belt-fastener of one piece 0f metal, wibh which the ends 0f the belting may be readily counected, ancl in such a manner that the strain Will be uniform, and the application of which will not necessitate the removal of any appreciable arn0unt 0f stoek from the belting. The same fastener may be used a great numberof times 0n helt-ing 0f varying thiekness, and with which the place of bearing in the beiting 0f any one 0f the arme 0r hooks may be ehanged without ehangin g the position 0f the entire fastener; also one With which, in its ipglication, seveml lines 0f bearing may be The invention consists in making the fastener of one thin flexible piece of metal, With a number 0f integral arms bent to pass through the belting at varying distances from the nenter-piece. Said arms nmy be either 0f vary ing 0r equal lengths.

In the acc0m1. anying drawings, in which similar letters 0f referenee indieate like arts, Figure 1 is a p6rspective view 0f my device, showing one side er sei: of hooks inserted in a piece of belting, with the other side 01' sei; 0f hooks bent prepamtory for use. Fig. 2 is a view of my device as it appears before tlxe arme am bent; and Fig. 3 is a view of one in whieh the arms are 0f equal length and 1n0re numerous than in Figs. 1 am]. 2.

The fastener is nmde 0f one piece 0f metal, brass being preferable, though any kind 0f metal may be used which will bear the strain and allow 0f tl1e requisite amount 0f bending. For ordinary three-inch belting I use brass 0f about one-sixteenth of an inch in thiekness, though it will be seen that the thiekness required depends largely 0n the heft; 0f the Delting t0 which they eure 110 be applied and the strain t0 whieh it is t0 be subjected. I stamp or cut it; in the shape shown in Fig. 2, and each alternate arm is longer than ehe one next t0 it. This I do for the purpose 0f obtaining a bearing inthe belting in more than one line, the object: being t0 obtain a number of points of bearing without weakening the belt 150 any appreciable extent, as would be the ease were all the punctures in the same line. lt will be seen that the same result Will be accdmplished if 1 make the arms of equal length and bend them als varying distances from their ends, 01 from the center platte, 0, though in this ease, when bent down 0n the opposite side ofthe belt, the arms or hooks Will appear t0 be 0f unequal lengths.

In the drawings, Fig. 1 represents 1ny device with one side 01 sei: 0f hooks inserted in the piece 0f belting J, with the anns ben's down 0r clinched, showing the 0tl1e1 side 01 the fastener with the arms 01 hooks bent ready for insertion in the belting.

T0 insert the hooks, 1 first press the belting against the ends 0f the hooks, thus marking the plaees where the holes are t0 be 1nade in the belting. In this way aecuraey is obtained. and the strain Will be uniform 011 all the bearings; and. the place of the bearing of any one 01 more 0f the hooks or a-r1ns may be changed without changing the posihion of zmy olzher bearin g 01 part 0f tl1e fastener.

It will be seen that the width of tl1e fast euer must depend upon the Width of the belt, though several small fasteners may be used 0n one wide belt. The better wa57, however, is 130 use one fastener of a sufiicient width.

II; will also be seen thal; the distance between the ar1ns is 110t material; and it' a great-er amount 0f bearing-surface is desired in the belting, then the arms 01 hooks may be located. very near together, as shown in Fig. 3, and several lines 0f holes made in the belt-ing. I (10 n0t therefore confine myself 120 this partieular construction, though I deem ii: the besls.

Having therefore described my invention, what I cla-im asnew, 2md desire to secure by Letters Patent, is'

1. An improved belt-fastener consisting of a flexible metal plate, 0, provided with attaohas co form two 01 more line.s 0f bearingwhen ing a-rxns 01 hooks c, 0f different lengths, rund attaehed to the belt, substantially as setforth. baut at varying distances from tl1e edge of the 111 testimony whereof I h2we hereunto set p1ate, substantially as shown an'd described. my band in the presenee of two witnesses.

2. An improved belt-faseuer consisting of OWEN H. JONES. a flexible metal plate, o, having attaehing Witnesses: arms o1 hooks 0f equal leugth, baut ab vary- ALLEN VVEBSTER,

ing distances fron1 the edge of the plate, so WILBUR B. STOWE. 

